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FINANCE
I. Town Accounting
Horace R. Parker, having completed the unexpired term of the late Arthur C. Widger, was reappointed Town Accountant for a term of three years. During the year, two regular audits of all the books of the town have been made by the Department of Corporations and
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Taxation, Division of Accounts, and copies of the reports are included in this report. Owing to the pressure of other business the State Auditors did not arrive in Swampscott for the January, 1927, audit until January 20 and their work had not been completed when this report went to press.
II. Town Debt
During the year the general debt (permanent improvement notes inside debt limit) was reduced $43,200 by payments and increased $36,- 000 by new loans for sewers $21,000 and highways $15,000. This made a net decrease of $7,200, leaving the amount of general debt $338,000.
The amount of permanent improvement bonds outside the debt limit was reduced to $59,000 by payment of $4,000.
The amount of water bonds, serial, was reduced from $263,000 to $252,500 by payments of $10,500. No new loans were made on this account.
The amount of water bonds, serial, was reduced from $210,100 to $194,250 by payments of $15,850. No new loans were made on this account.
The total bonded debt was $881,300 and is now $843,750, a reduction of $37,550. The water loan sinking fund was increased $9,223.44, making the same $143,964.16.
The total decrease in the debt was $46,773.44 and the present amount of the debt is $699,785.84.
III. Loans in Anticipation of Revenue
$100,000 00
Due November 10, 1926 S. N. Bond & Co., of Boston Shawmut Corporation, Boston 3.73% discount
3.79% discount $3 00 premium
F. S. Moseley & Co., Boston 3.69% discount
3 25 premium
Central National Bank, Lynn 3.68% discount
4 00 premium
Manufacturers National Bank, Lynn 3.55% discount Security Trust Co., Lynn 3.50% discount
1 30 premium
Sagamore Trust Co., Lynn 3.49% discount
Award made to the Sagamore Trust Co.
Due November 20, 1926
$100,000 00
S. N. Bond & Co., Boston 3.55% discount
$2 00 premium
H. C. Grafton Co., Boston 3.44% discount
Central National Bank, Lynn 3.43% discount
Manufacturers National Bank, Lynn 3.28% discount Sagamore Trust Co., Lynn 3.23% discount
Awarded to the Sagamore Trust Co., Lynn.
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Due December 20, 1926
$100,000 00
Sagamore Trust Co.
3.27% discount
Manufacturers National Bank 3.40% discount $1 25 premium
Security Trust Co. 3.49% discount
Awarded to the Sagamore Trust Co., Lynn.
Due December 10, 1926
$100,000 00
Security Trust Co.
3.85% discount
$2 05 premium
Central National Bank
3.83% discount 1 75 premium
Manufacturers National Bank
3.82% discount
1 00 premium
Grafton & Co.
3.73% discount
Sagamore Trust Co. 3.72% discount
Awarded to the Sagamore Trust Co., Lynn.
Other Bonds
On July 2 the Board received bids for $17,000, 4% Swampscott Sewer Loan 1926 notes running from July 1, 1926, to July 1, 1943, inclusive and payable $1,000 each year, and $15,000 4% Swampscott Street Loan 1926 notes running from July 1, 1926, to July 1, 1931, inclusive, pay- able $3,000 each year, as follows:
R. L. Day & Co., Boston $100 09
Old Colony Corp., Boston 100 34
Merrill, Oldham & Co., Boston 100 35
Blodgett & Co., Boston
100 48
The award was made to Blodgett & Co.
On November 26 the Board received bids for $4,000 in notes author- ized by the town for the construction of the Puritan park sewers, from the Security Trust Co., Sagamore Trust Co., and Manufacturers' Na- tional Bank, all of Lynn, each of whom bid par and 4% interest. As all were the same the choice was decided by lot and the award was made to the Manufacturers' National Bank of Lynn.
Appropriations for Departmental Expenses
The following are the amounts requested by the various officers, boards and committees for the conduct of their departments during the year 1927:
GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Legislative. Moderator
$100 00
Finance Committee. Printing and postage
$300 00
Clerk
100 00
$500 00
Amount carried forward
$500 00
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Amount brought forward
$500 00
Selectmen.
Salaries
$700 00
Secretary
200 00
Clerical assistance
312 00
Stationery and postage
150 00
Printing and advertising
450 00
Flowers
50 00
Filing cabinet
50 00
Flowers for honor roll
20 00
Office furniture and supplies
168 00
All other
100 00
$2,200 00
Accounting.
Salary
$2,000 00
Clerical assistance
312 00
Binders
50 00
Printing, stationery and postage
88 00
$2,450 00
Treasurer.
Treasurer's salary
$750 00
Fidelity Bond Premium
165 00
Clerical and stenographic services
250 00
Accounting supplies and equipment
250 00
Printing and postage
100 00
Theft and burglary insurance
90 00
Subscriptions
18 00
Transportation
15 00
Miscellaneous
50 00
Total
$1,688 00
Certification of Notes and Bonds.
Certification and printing
$500 00
Collector of Taxes.
Collector's salary
$1,500 00
Assistant
600 00
Stationery and postage
500 00
Printing and advertising
400 00
Bonds
355 00
Burglar insurance
61 20
Miscellaneous
25 00
Costs on tax titles
80 10
Registering tax titles Total
47 45
$3,568 75
Amount carried forward
$10,906 75
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Amount brought forward
$10,906 75
Board of Assessors.
Chairman
$900 00
Associates
500 00
Assistant assessors
100 00
Clerical
700 00
Deeds and records
200 00
Poll Books (Printing)
300 00
Printing, books and postage
300 00
Automobile hire
100 00
Telephone
30 00
Miscellaneous
70 00
Total
$3,200 00
Town Clerk.
Town Clerk's salary
$200 00
Assistant
100 00
Elections
100 00
Stationery and postage
40 00
Printing and advertising
60 00
Canvass of births
25 00
Bond
4 00
Justice of the Peace (oaths)
60 00
Record book: mortgages
30 00
Miscellaneous
25 00
Total
$644 00
Election and Registration.
Registrars
$300 00
Clerk
125 00
Election officers
275 00
Rents
55 00
Voting lists
200 00
Ballots
100 00
Lunches
50 00
Miscellaneous
50 00
Total
$1,155 00
Engineering Department.
Town Engineer's salary
$2,600 00
Assistants' salaries
3,000 00
Typewriting
15 00
Stationery (contracts, etc.)
75 00
Instrument (repairs)
50 00
Expenses
200 00
Numbers for houses
25 00
Stakes
50 00
Total
$6,015 00
Amount carried forward
$21,920 75
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Amount brought forward
$21,920 75
Town Hall.
Salary
$1,820 00
Fuel
500 00
Light
325 00
Supplies
200 00
Repairs
250 00
Telephone
350 00
Miscellaneous
55 00
Total
$3,500 00
Special
Renewing water pipes estimated cost
$100 00
Law.
Legal services
$1,000 00
Board of Appeals.
Clerk
$100 00
Postage, printing, advertising, miscellaneous
100 00
Total
$200 00
Protection of Life and Property
Police.
Salaries.
1 Chief @ $2,360
$2,360 00
2 Captains @ $2,200
4,400 00
8 Patrolmen @ $2,000
16,000 00
6 Patrolmen @ $1,800
11,400 00
2 Patrolmen @ $1,800
3,600 00
1 Clerk @ $20 per wk.
1,040 00
Specials
200 00
$39,000 00
Maintenance of Department Signal System.
Operation of same, including cost of gongs: $89.17 per mo.
$1,070 04
Out of town telephone calls
60 00
Chief's telephone @ $2.17 and tolls
35 00
$1,165 04
Gas and Electricity: For Station @ $13.00 per month
156 00
Fuel: 16 tons of coal @ $14.00
225 00
Gasoline, Oil, Alcohol
600 00
Motor Supplies and Repairs: (Includes Motorcycles)
550 00
Insurance on Police car
53 00
Amount carried forward
$68,469 79
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Amount brought forward
$68,469 79
Miscellaneous Expenses.
Beacons
70 00
Street paint
60 00
Department equipment
400 00
Men's equipment
200 00
Stationery and printing
250 00
Signs
45 00
Other operation and maintenance. (Includes janitor's supplies, office supplies, bicycle supplies, water, ice, laundry, cleaning, repairs of building, advertising, investigation, freight and express, doctors, papers, licenses, and all others)
726 00
Appropriation
$43,500 00
Fire Department.
Board of Engineers
$300 00
Clerk of Board
50 00
Chief
2,360 00
Deputy Chief
2,160 00
3 Captains
6,300 00
11 Privates
22,000 00
12 Call Men
2,410 00
Total
$33,580 00
Office supplies
$30 00
Postage
5 00
Telephone.
175 00
Laundry
90 00
House supplies
285 00
Gas
140 00
Electricity
195 00
Coal
600 00
Water
65 00
Ice
10 00
House repairs
200 00
Miscellaneous
100 00
Gasoline
325 00
Tires
300 00
Auto repairs
250 00
Auto supplies
300 00
Oil
35 00
Express
300 00
New equipment
150 00
Fire alarm
350 00
Grand total
$39,510 00
$109,730 79
Amount carried forward
25 00
Extra labor
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Amount brought forward
$109,730 79
Sealer of Weights and Measures.
Salary, Sealer of Weights and Measures
$400 00
Printing and books, etc.
30 00
Teaming and helper Miscellaneous Total
100 00
25 00
$555 00
Tree Warden.
Planting trees.
Shaw estate, 75
$300 00
Buena Vista, 12
48 00
Bellevue road, 12
48 00
Burpee road, 12
48 00
Rock avenue, 12
48 00
Replacements, 25
100 00
Removing trees.
Beach Bluff avenue
60 00
Humphrey street
25 00
Puritan road
25 00
Essex street
25 00
Elsewhere
100 00
Tree guards
200 00
Leopard moth work
200 00
Trimming and repairing.
Highway trees
800 00
Cemetery trees
300 00
Tools and supplies Total
73 00
$2,400 00
Moth Department.
Salary and wages
$4,143 00
Telephone
18 00
Insecticide
300 00
Tools and supplies
50 00
Trucks and teams
200 00
Gas and oil
75 00
Water
50 00
Storage
24 00
Hose
50 00
Stationery and printing
25 00
Express and freight
15 00
Repairs
50 00
Total
$5,000 00
Amount carried forward
$117,685 79
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Amount brought forward
$117,685 79
Forest Warden.
Fighting woods fires Building Inspector.
$200 00
Building Inspector's salary
$900 00
Printing
35 00
Total
$935 00
Health and Sanitation
Administration.
Chairman
$200 00
Associates
300 00
Health officer
1,894 75
Transportation
221 00
Clerk
936 00
Postage and stationery
150 00
Printing and advertising
100 00
Office furniture
360 00
$4,161 75
Board and treatment.
Quarantine
$300 00
Tuberculosis
2,500 00
$2,800 00
Vital statistics.
Births
$375 00
Deaths
125 00
Marriages
75 00
$575 00
Other expenses.
Plumbing Inspector
$1,000 00
Inspector of Slaughtering
100 00
Fumigation
50 00
Ice
50 00
Milk analysis
350 00
Dairy inspection
125 00
Miscellaneous
75 00
$1,750 00
Dental clinic
$550 00
$550 00
Health nurse.
Salary
$1,300 00
Expenses
50 00
$1,350 00
Amount carried forward
$130,007 54
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Amount brought forward
$130,007 54
Ashes.
Contract
$7,985 00
Extra work
50 00
Clean-up week
100 00
Cleaning dumps
1,700 00
Night soil
95 00
$9,930 00
Garbage.
Contract
$5,500 00
Extra work
100 00
$5,600 00
Beaches.
Labor
$500 00
Teams
200 00
Care of offal
450 00
Carion
25 00
Painting and repair of dory
20 00
Miscellaneous
25 00
$1,220 00
Sewer Department.
Sewer maintenance
$9,000 00
Particular sewers
1,000 00
Care of brooks
1,500 00
$11,500 00
Highways
Administration
$2,600 00
Repairs.
Labor
$25,000 00
Teams and trucks
6,500 00
Crushed stone and gravel
4,000 00
Hay and grain
3,000 00
Horse shoeing
800 00
Extra work, Millett and Wyman roads
2,500 00
New streets just accepted (1926)
3,000 00
New fences
1,000 00
All other
2,500 00
$48,300 00
Amount carried forward
$209,157 54
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Amount brought forward
$209,157 54
New construction
$15,000 00
Seal coating
5,000 00
Street construction
2,500 00
Street watering and oiling
5,000 00
Sidewalks and curbing
4,000 00
Snow and ice
5,000 00
$36,500 00
New Equipment.
2 Two horse carts
$1,000 00
1 mixer
250 00
1 pair horses
600 00
· 3 sets harness
500 00
$2,600 00
Repairs on Equipment.
Repairing harness and tip carts
$500 00
Painting and repairing buildings at town yard
500 00
Concrete floor in garage
400 00
$1,400 00
Lighting streets
$20,100 00
Continuous sidewalks
$10,000 00
Charities
Overseers of the Poor.
Overseers' salaries
$350 00
Secretary's salary
100 00
Telephone
40 00
General expenses
8,510 00
Total
$9,000 00
Soldiers' Benefits.
Soldiers' relief
$5,000 00
State Aid
700 00
Military aid
480 00
$6,180 00
Pensions.
Fire
$300 00
Police
$2,200 00
School
925 00
Highway
1,518 40
Total
$4,943 40
Amount carried forward
$299,780 94
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Amount brought forward
$299,780 94
Schools
School Department.
School Committee-Expenses
$275 00
Superintendent-Expenses
350 00
Pay roll
130,245 00
Text books and supplies
6,750 00
Fuel
4,500 00
Miscellaneous operating
3,500 00
Repairs
2,000 00
Library
250 00
Medical inspection
500 00
Transportation
800 00
Tuition
350 00
Sundries
1,350 00
New equipment
400 00
Total
$151,270 00
For special repairs at High School
$4,000 00
Library
Public Library
Books
$200 00
Replacement of books
200 00
Periodicals
175 00
Binding
300 00
Salaries
2,300 00
Wages and extra help
600 00
Water and light
300 00
Repairs
100 00
Telephone
60 00
Supplies
100 00
Improvements, equipment
100 00
Printing-Publicity
50 00
Postage-Express
Freight-Cartage
25 00
Janitor
1,200 00
Heat
250 00
Petty cash
40.00
Total
$6,000 00
Parks .
Parks
$7,500 00
Amount carried forward
$468,550 94
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Amount brought forward
$468,550 94
Unclassified
Constable
$60 00
Town weigher
30 00
Inspector of animals
100 00
Dog officer
200 00
Memorial Day
500 00
District nurse
300 00
Firemen's Memorial Day
200 00
Legion lease
950 00
Trust Fund Custodian's Bond
40 00
Soldiers' exemption
50 00
Printing town reports
1,300 00
Heat, light and repairs G. A. R. hall
700 00
Insurance
4,500 00
Total
$8,930 00
Cemetery
Salary of superintendent
$1,050 00
Labor
1,600 00
Telephone
30 00
Plants
85 00
Water and repairs
85 00
Tools and repairs
100 00
Andrews Memorial Chapel
65 00
Weed killer
40 00
Canvas
25 00
Gravel
30 00
Loam and teaming
30 00
$3,140 00
Retaining wall
$500 00
Wright street and back of Chapel for lots
$2,500 00
Interest and Maturing Debt
Interest.
Loans in anticipation of revenue
$10,000 00
General debt
14,893 50
Sewer bonds
7,830 75
T. B. Hospital bonds
2,280 00
$35,004 25
Amount carried forward
$518,625 19
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Amount brought forward
$518,625 19
Municipal Indebtedness.
General debt Sewer bonds T. B. Hospital bonds
$41,200 00
15,850 00
4,000 00
$61,050 00
County of Essex.
For Essex Sanatorium assessment
$3,985 55
Total
$583,660 74
Respectfully submitted,
HARRY D. LINSCOTT, PHILIP W. BLOOD, R. WYER GREENE,
December 31, 1926.
Board of Selectmen ..
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Accounting Department
REPORT OF THE TOWN ACCOUNTANT
To the Board of Selectmen:
In acordance with the provisions of Chapter 41 of the General Laws,. I herewith submit the following report of the Accounting Department for the year ending December 31, 1926.
TREASURER'S RECEIPTS
Taxes.
Poll, 1923
$5 00
$5 00
Real estate, 1924
1,098 45
Personal, 1924
42 50
Poll, 1924
6 00
$1,146 95
Real estate, 1925
$68,141 24
Personal, 1925
1,967 90
Poll, 1925
8 00
$70,117 14
Real estate, 1926
$464,746 65
Personal, 1926
42,739 40
Poll, 1926
5,400 00
$512,886 05
Tax Titles
2,130 56
2,130 56
$586,285 70)
Income Tax, 1923
$403 50
Income Tax, 1924
511 10
Income Tax, 1925
1,300 00
Income Tax, 1926
49,191 17
Special Income Tax, 1926
13,224 00
Corporation Tax, Business
6,815 05
Corporation Tax, Public Service
4,310 43
National Bank Tax
2,729 98
Trust Company Tax
2,747 78
Street Railway Tax, 1925
1 13
Street Railway Tax, 1926
590 14
Charles River Basin Loan S. F.
3,164 23
$84,988 51
$84,988 51
Amount carried forward
$671,274 21
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Amount brought forward
$671,274 21
Licenses and Permits.
·
Junk
$225 00
Peddlers
72 00
Pool table
2 00
Bowling alley
2 00
Milk
72 00
Automobile dealers
105 00
Auctioneer
2 00
Express
10 00
Elevator
14 00
Taxi
13 00
Innholders
35 00
Common victualers
4 00
Intelligence office
2 00
Alcohol
37 00
Non-alcohol
20 00
Manicure
13 00
Oleomargarine
3 50
$631 50
$631 50
Fines and Forfeits.
Court fines
$827 00
Grants and Gifts.
Dog taxes from County
$508 83
Special Assessments.
Moth, 1924
$3 00
Moth, 1925
194 25
Moth, 1926
1,657 25
$1,854 50
Sewers, 1924
$33 48
Sewers, 1925
793 46
Sewers, 1926
1,167 72
Unapportioned sewers
1,899 68
$3,894 34
Sidewalks, 1925
$535 61
Sidewalks, 1926
1,562 60
Unapportioned sidewalks
1,544 93
$3,643 14
$9,391 98
Amount carried forward
$682,633 52
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Amount brought forward
$682,633 52
General Government.
Collector
$291 52
Rent of Town Hall
97 00
Board of Appeals
85 00
Gasoline permits (advertising)
140 00
Sale of Morris house
75 00
$688 52
Protection of Persons and Property.
Police, telephone refunds®
$7 45
Sealer of Weights and Measures 4 62
$12 07
Health.
Board and treatment
$97 00
Division of Sanatoria
325 71
Dental Clinic
4 25
Sale of old materials (sewer)
146 18
$573 14
Charities.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts $1,070 17
Cities and towns
125 03
Individuals
10 00
$1,205 20
Soldiers' Benefits.
State aid
$570 00
Military aid
7 50
Soldiers' relief
50 00
$627 50
Schools.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
For English speaking classes $440 18
For vocational education 16 12
For tuition of State wards 352 62
Tuition of non-resident pupils 612 50
Wood bought by pupils Man. Tr. 49 97
$1,471 39
Amount carried forward
$682,633 52
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Amount brought forward
$682,633 52
Library.
Fines
$275 00
Parks.
Rents
$308 90
Telephone
87
$309 77
$5,162 59
Cemetery.
Sale of lots
$1,995 00
Perpetual care
1,080 00
$3,075 00
Water Department.
Water rates
$60,722 90
Water services
5,823 07
Rents
485 00
Interest
841 12
Miscellaneous
2,114 37
$69,986 46
Interest.
On Treasurer's deposits
$3,328 46
On taxes
2,653 98
On sewer assessments
26
Accrued interest
24 89
Premium on bonds
153 60
$6,161 19
Municipal Indebtedness.
Loans in anticipation of revenue
$400,000 00
Street loan
15,000 00
Sewer loans
21,000 00
$436,000 00
Trust Funds.
Cemetery trust funds
$375 00
Joanna Morse library fund
1,921 52
Ellen R. Whittle library fund
1.24 30
Mary L. Thomson library fund
185 69
$2,606 51
Amount carried forward
$1,205,625 27
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Amount brought forward
$1,205,625 27
Refunds.
Insurance premiums
$64 81
Armistice Day appropriation unused 200 00
Fourth of July reimbursement
22 77
Contract bidder's check forfeited
200 00
From County
Essex street paving reimbursement
3,088 22
From State
Essex street paving reimbursement
3,088 21
$6,664 01
$1,212,289 28
Balance January 1, 1926
148,097 49
Total receipts
$1,360,386 77
TRANSFERS
From Pleasant Street Sewer to Emergency Sewers $14 30
From King's Brook Culvert to Emergency Sewers 111 18
From Palmer School to Redington Street School 566 74
From School Committee to Redington Street School 500 00
From Joanna Morse Fund Income to Joanna Morse Fund for Books at Library 1,617 04
From Premiums on Notes and Bonds to Gen- eral Debt Maturing 4,556 51
From Military Equipment to Soldiers' Exemption 6 45
From Water to Bay View Drive Water Main
2,650 00
From Humphrey Street Resurfacing to
Essex Street Paving 32
From Burpee Road to Monument Avenue, Middlesex Avenue, etc. Paving 1,143 47
From Atlantic Avenue to Monument Avenue, Middlesex Avenue etc. Paving 1,136 69
From Burrill Street to Monument Avenue, Middlesex Avenue, etc. Paving 1,503 41
From Reserve Fund to Snow and Ice 1,139 65
Amount carried forward
$14,945 76
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'Amount brought forward
$14,945 76
From Reserve Fund to Refuse, Garbage and Night Soil $1,347 05
From Reserve Fund to Health 165 00
From Excess and Deficiency to Printing Town By-Laws 200 00
From Excess and Deficiency to Danvers Street Bridge 2,500 00
From Excess and Deficiency to Hadley School Roof 875 00
From Excess and Deficiency to Hadley School Fence 100 00
From Excess and Deficiency to Grading Red- ington Street School Land 1,100 00
From Excess and Deficiency to Redington Street School 1,600 00
From Reserve Fund to Jackson Park Flag Pole 350 00
From Revenue to Isaac W. Chick Claim 5,318 35
From Reserve Fund to Poor
800 00
From Reserve Fund to Poor 275 00
From Reserve Fund to Town Hall
113 63
From Reserve Fund to Treasury
10 89
From Reserve Fund to Health
269 42
From Reserve Fund to Sewers 67 49
From Reserve Fund to Jackson Park
100 00
From Reserve Fund to Police
204 32
From Cemetery Lots Funds Income to Trust and Investment Funds Income 375 00
From Ellen R. Whittle Fund Income to Trust and Investment Funds Income 124 30
From Mary L. Thomson Fund Income to Trust and Investment Funds Income 185 69
From Joanna R. Morse Fund Income to Trust and Investment Funds Income 304 48
From Trust Funds Transactions to Mary L. Thomson Library Fund 12 64
From Trust Funds Transactions to Ellen R. Whittle Library Fund 23 58
From Trust Funds Transactions to Joanna R. Morse Library Fund 304 48
From Cemetery Lots to Cemetery Lots Fund 3,075 00
From Municipal Insurance to Municipal In- surance Fund 402 00
Amount carried forward
$35,149 68
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Amount brought forward
$35,149 68
From Premiums on Notes and Bonds to Gen- eral Debt Maturing From Revenue to Excess and Deficiency
153 60
28,128 97
$63,431 65
EXPENDITURES
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GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Legislative
Moderator, salary
$100 00
Finance Committee.
Postage
$28 08
Supplies
3 95
Printing
192 50
Stenographer
18 50
Addressing Reports
15 50
Teaming
3 00
$261 53
$361 53
Selectmen's Department
Salaries and Wages.
Selectmen's salaries
$700 00
Secretary
200 00
Clerical assistance
203 30
$1,103 30
Other Expenses.
Stationery and postage
$146 34
Printing and advertising
454 05
Carfares, teams, etc.
10 39
Flowers
50 00
Office furniture and supplies
288 30
Redflex signals
35 00
Transcript of testimony
37 20
Flowers for honor roll
20 00
Payment for land taken
25 00
Settlement of claim
5 00
All others
25 11
$1,096 39
$2,199 69
$2,561 22
Amount carried forward
ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
273
274
TOWN DOCUMENTS
[Dec. 31
Amount brought forward
$2,561 22
Accounting Department
Salaries and Wages.
Accountant
2,000 00
Clerical assistance
189 88
$2,189 88
Other Expenses.
Stationery and postage
42 72
Printing and advertising
13 25
All other
29 03
$85 00
$2,274 88
Treasury Department
Salaries.
Treasurer
750 00
Assistant
200 00
Clerical services
15 00
$965 00
Other Expenses.
Stationery and postage
119 10
Printing and advertising
71 00
Bonds and insurance
253 14
All other
100 65
$543 89
$1,508 89
Certification of Notes and Bonds
Printing
$27 00
Certifying
124 00
Advertising
92 50
All other
12 05
$255 55
$255 55
Amount carried forward
$6,600 54
275
ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
1926]
Amount brought forward
$6,600 54
Collector of Taxes Department
Salaries and Wages.
Collector
$1,500 00
Clerical assistance
85 00
$1,585 00
Other Expenses.
Stationery and postage
509 92
Printing and advertising
360 15
All other
845 37
$1,715 44
$3,300 44
Assessors' Department
Salaries and Wages.
Assessors
55 00
Assistants
492 00
Clerk
$2,047 00
Other Expenses.
Stationery and postage
$80 83
Printing and advertising
464 00
Carfares, teams, etc.
153 75
Telephone
225 17
All other
$950 14
$2,997 14
Town Clerk's Department
Salaries and Wages.
Town Clerk
100 00
Assistant
100 00
Elections
$400 00
Other Expenses.
38 00
Stationery and postage
81 25
Printing and advertising
141 11
All other
$260 36
$660 36
Amount carried forward
$13,558 48
$1,500 00
26 39
$200 00
276
TOWN DOCUMENTS
[Dec. 31
Amount brought forward
$13,558 48
Law Department
Salaries.
Town Counsel
$879 00
Other Expenses.
Medical examination
$5 00
Claims
35 00
$40 00
$919 00
Election and Registration
Salaries and Wages.
Registrars
$425 00
Election officers
880 00
All other
29 00
$1,334 00
Other Expenses.
Stationery and postage
$13 38
Printing and advertising
184 25
Meals
49 95
Auto Hire
60 00
Polling booths
165 00
Teaming
48 50
All other
70 50
$591 58
$1,925 58
Engineering Department
Salaries and Wages.
Engineer
$2,675 00
Assistants
2,920 00
$5,595 00
Other Expenses.
Stationery and printing
$79 41
Instruments
25 05
Expenses
115 05
All other
38 82
$258 33
$5,853 33
Amount carried forward
$22,256 39
1926]
ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT
277
Amount brought forward
$22,256 39
Town Hall Department
Salaries and Wages. Agent and Janitor
$1,855 00
Other Expenses.
Fuel
$488 59
Light
376 54
Janitor's supplies
204 59
Repairs
237 11
Telephone
351 80
$1,658 63
$3,513 63
Board of Appeals
Printing
$35 00
Advertising
28 00
Stenographer
15 00
Clerk
39 03
All other
7 97
$125 00
Painting and Repairs-Town Hall
Repairs
$96 69
Painting
403 00
$499 69
Summary of General Government
Appropriation Transfer To
Expend.
Balance
Legislative
$400 00
$361 53
$38 47
Selectmen
2,200 00
2,199 69
31
Accounting
2,275 00
2,274 88
12
Treasury
1,498 00
$10 89
1,508 89
Cert. Notes and Bonds
500 00
255 55
244 45
Collector of Taxes
3,313 75
3,300 44
13 31
Assessors
3,100 00
2,997 14
102 86
Town Clerk
700 00
660 36
39 64
Law
1,000 00
919 00
81 00
Election and Registration
1,935 00
1,925 58
9 42
Engineering
5,875 00
5,853 33
21 67
Town Hall
3,400 00
113 63
3,513 63
Board of Appeals
125 00
125 00
Town Hall Painting
500 00
499 69
31
Total
$26,821 75
$124 52
$26,394 71
$551 56
Carried forward
$26,394 71
278
TOWN DOCUMENTS
[Dec. 31
Amount brought forward
$26,394 71
PROTECTION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY
Police Department
Salaries and Wages.
Chief
$2,360 00
Captains
4,088 68
Patrolmen
27,520 85
Special police
2,210 67
Other employees
2,178 32
$38,358 52
Motor Vehicles and Care of Same.
Supplies
$825 43
Gasoline and Oil
611 11
Storage
33 50
$1,470 04
Equipment and Repairs.
Equipment for men
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